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[battleborndr]

[Look who hasn't been heard from in awhile... but here he is, a large grin on his face, right in the camera, barely giving any room for Harkness, or Donna's left behind Pricklemane, River.

For once, he has a direction to go towards. He's heard a call for help on a few pieces other of scrap devices, too; isn't that great?]

So, someone needs help, eh? Well, we reckoned there was something like that, I suppose, but this is much more... forward than I've heard since ending up in this Dream.

[His grin starts to shift into something more wild. He's excited.]

Time for the work and the fun to begin.

[And, after a moment...]

Doctor, are you still about?

[Yes, Four, he's talking to you.]

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[allpurposescarf]

Of course I'm about. Why wouldn't I have been?

[A pause, and then:]

Did you want me for something?

[battleborndr]

[Don't be daft :|]

Donna's gone, so for all I knew, you could've woken up, too.

[Ugh. Why is he even bothering.]

Gee, I thought we could talk about the weather.

[You know, not things like YAY HAVING A MORE DEFINED GOAL or OH BY THE WAY almost maybe caused a paradox (except he's still here despite Donna being gone, so maybe nothing changed, at least on his end).]

[allpurposescarf]

[But he does it so well!]

Well, I could have, but I'd only just go back to... well, it doesn't matter so much. And it's not anything that I need to hurry back to even if I wanted to.

[Sure, it's odd that he's been asleep for so long, but he never liked being set on errands anyway.]

There's weather? I must have missed it.

[Unending night doesn't count and being a pony is nothing at all to do with the weather. But it doesn't feel like there's been a paradox, for all that he's not familiar with the particulars of the relevant future.]

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[battleborndr]

[OH MY GOD why is he even bothering?!

Though... there is a part of him that does want to know what he'll be going back to.

Only a part.]

Oh yes, chalk full of--maybe you'd like to help me figure this out?

[god what a pain]

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[battleborndr]

--though you're not exactly the Doctor I'd chose, but at least you're not Time-Lord-Me, who's probably already gone off and regenerated into someone Not-Ginger...

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[allpurposescarf]

[Oh, likely only one of the great powers of the universe being highly irritated at the pause in the quest Four was supposed to be going on interrupted for something as simple as a dream.]

Not exactly? What do you mean, 'not exactly'?

[He might be hard to nail down, but he's still the Doctor, for all his faults.]

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[allpurposescarf]

[There's a moment of pause and then he catches up to the rest of the conversation.]

Did you say something about figuring things out? Because it does seem like it would be a good time. Now that we've started to get some actual answers. Or something like, anyway.

[battleborndr]

Well I hate to break it to you, but there's been a lot more Doctors to follow you, so... [You know. A guy's gotta have favorites, okay? Sure Four's a classic, but Five... He has Ten's memories and partial feelings, what can he say?

But jeez, at least Four's on the same page, now.]

Might just be a good time to put some heads together.

[allpurposescarf]

Well, yes, of course there has. As nice as being me has been eventually I'm not going to be me, am I? And I'm fairly certain that I wouldn't just up and go for good. Otherwise I'd never forgive myself.

[He's got regenerations yet to spare, and he'd like to think that he's going to use them one way or the other.]

But, yes, I agree. Whatever this actually is, whoever's actually responsible, it can't be good. By any stretch of the imagination.